Price indicating means



Sept. 8, 1936.` c. w; sHELDoN PRICE INDICATING MEANS Filedr sept. 14, i955 Patented Sept. 8, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIIcEM 3 Claims.

This invention relates to the class of cards and signs and pertains particularly to improvements in price indicating devices.

The primary object of the present invention is to provide an improved means of placing price markers upon shelving whereby the fixture may be wiped over or dusted without disturbing the markers.

Another object of the invention is to provide a price marker of the above described character in which changes may be made easily and quickly and without disturbing the adjacent markers or the articles upon the adjacent shelf.

A still further object of the invention is to provide an article of the above described character which is of simple design and which may be economically produced.

The invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, with the understanding, however, that the invention is not confined to any strict conformity with the showing of the drawing but may be changed or modified so long as such changes or modifications mark no material departure from the salient features of the invention as expressed in the appended claims.

In the drawing,

Figure 1 is a View in perspective of a portion of a shelf showing a portion of the price indicating means embodying the present invention attached to the shelf.

Fig. 2 is a view in section upon the line 2--2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view thru the price ticket holder showing the resilient tongue for maintaining the price tickets in position.

Referring now more particularly to the drawing wherein like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views, the numeral I indicates a portion of a shelf which is joined in the usual manner to a side vertical piece or frame 2.

The device embodying the present invention is indicated as a whole by the numeral 3, and comprises a molding strip 4 which is adapted to be secured to the front edge of the shelf I and which has its top edge beveled to slope inwardly and downwardly toward the adjacent shelf, as indicated at 4'.

Attached in any suitable manner to the face of the molding strip 4 is a flat metal strip 5 which is preferably formed of aluminum or any other suitable light non-rusting material. This strip sprung outwardly for the insertion of a pricel0 indicating card or plate so as to act as a resilient retaining means therefor.

The numeral 9 indicates a price ticket or plate which is preferably formed of the same light metal as the strip 5. A portion of one edge of the 15 price plate is turned to form the tongue I0 which has the same angular relation with the body of the plate as the flange 6 has with the strip 5, so that the tongue may engage firmly against the top surface of the strip 6 while the plate is in position against the front thereof. The vertical extent of the plate 9 is such that when the tongue IU is disposed against the flange 6, as illustrated in Fig. 2, the lower edge of the plate will extend into the area between the strip 5 and the resilient retaining flange 1, and since the free edge of this flange must be sprung outwardly in order to insert the lower edge of the plate, it will be apparent that it serves as a resilient securing means so that the price plate will not move from position. It will be obvious that any number of price plates 9 may be disposed against the face of the strip 5 to make up a desired figure, as illustrated in Fig. 1, and also that any one of these plates may be removed for replacement by another without disturbing the other plates adjacent thereto and without disturbing the articles on the shelf.

I claim:

l. A price-indicating device comprising an elongated strip of material intended for attachment to an edge of a shelf, said strip having its top edge surface in an angular plane relative to its face to extend inwardly and downwardly toward the attached shelf, a plate extending longitudinally of said Vstrip over the said face thereof, a flange formed along one edge of said plate engaging over the said surface of the strip, a resilient flange forming an up-turned portion of the other longitudinal edge of said plate, and indicia bearing plates positioned against the face of said first plate and each having a tongue extending at the same angle as and over the rst flange of the first-mentioned plate and having the edge opposite said tongue resiliently frictionally held by the resilient flange.

2. In a shelf construction, a shelf body, a fiat moulding strip secured to and extending lengthwise of an edge of the shelf, said strip having its top edge face beveled to extend from its forward corner inwardly at a downward inclination toward the shelf, the rear corner of the beveled surface being substantially in the plane of the shelf top surface, an indicia bearing plate positioned over the front surface of the strip and having a ange forming an acute angle therewith for disposition over the said beveled face of the strip, and means extending lengthwise of the front surface of the strip for receiving and frictionally holding that edge of the plate opposite the ange.

3. In a price indicating device, an elongated flat strip adapted for disposition parallel with the edge of a shelf, said strip having along the upper edge thereof a flange extending rearwardly and downwardly, a resilient flange along the lower edge of the strip and projecting upwardly in spaced relation to the front face thereof, and an indicia bearing plate positioned against the face of the strip and having a top edge tongue eX- tending rearwardly from said ange and at a corresponding angle therewith and having its bottom edge frictionally held between said resilient ange and the strip.

CHARLES WALTER SHELDON. 

